Garden Score

May 26th, 2006

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In the last few weeks, I’ve been planting a garden in front of our house. I had a very nice butterfly garden at our previous house, but it took a tremendous amount of work to keep the deer away. I was pleased that our new house was in a less deer prone area. Unfortunately, I didn’t count on the depredations of the little rabbit who lives under our neighbor’s woodpile:

Ornamental Grasses 3 planted 2 eaten by rabbit
Black-eyed Susans 3 planted 2 eaten by rabbit
Columbine 3 planted 1 eaten by rabbit

I think the rabbit is winning.

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3 Responses to “ Garden Score ”

  1. Bardiac
    May 27th, 2006 at 7:22 am

    Have you tried Deer-off? I can get it (or similar stuff) at my local hardware or gardening store, and it works pretty well. It works by being noxious rather than poisonous (smells like rotten eggs gone worse), so critters usually don’t want to eat it. You won’t want to smell it up close, either, while you’re spraying, but for me the odor fades pretty quickly. Some people also use formulations of fox or coyote urine.

    I don’t know if butterflies would find it unappealing, though.

  2. Jodi
    May 28th, 2006 at 1:37 am

    As it should be.

  3. Eloise
    May 30th, 2006 at 11:49 am

    Cuttings of human hair, or shed pet hair, makes a great herbivore-repelling mulch, believe it or not.

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